9/1/2023 0 Comments Babad tanah jawa.pdf![]() ![]() To belatedly set the record straight and to honour Winter’s contributions to the development of Javanese, I decided to publish this text in Javanese script and provide an English translation for the general public. This was unfortunate, because it deprived linguists of one of the first attempts to create a standard Javanese prose language, and historians of a readable text that presented a Javanese view of Javanese history from the beginning until 1742. Although Winter achieved his aims in other ways and publications, the present text was mostly forgotten, or was just passed over as another copy of the Meinsma text (Pigeaud, Literature of Java). At that time, Javanese was almost exclusively written in verse, which was not a medium suitable for the modern world that was dawning on Java. ![]() (1799-1859), with the twofold aim of providing Javanese-language teaching material and of setting a standard for formal Javanese prose writing. The revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F.
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